A TEENAGER DIED IN THE FIRING OUTSIDE TH Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA HAS ADD TWELVE MORE TESTING SITES FOR CORONA

Philadelphia is launching Twelve new corona virus testing sites, officials reported Thurs, to increase capability in undeserved communities and edge the community to restart the economy.

The increased testing sites based at established health centers would help bring the community forward to mitigating the strangle hold of the pandemic on the region, stated Tom Farley, Philadelphia's health commissioner.

The area-owned health clinics currently serve 8 different locations. Further 4 projects will begin over the next week at privately operated health centers.

Authorities have confirmed many more testing locations, including in Kensington, are in development.

The requirements for being checked at one of the latest clinics are the same as other established locations across the city: you must be over Fifty years of age and have corona signs or be a health professional or first res ponder.

Philly's rate of reported cases — which presumably constitute a portion of the overall real infections occurring in the population — was stable at around five hundred to six hundred fresh reports each day over the last week.

"The fact that we have a stable case count is an indication that we are making improvement," Farley said, cautioning that maintaining public distancing is "our strongest weapon now"

FOUR YEAR OLD GIRL LOST HER LIFE IN A FATAL FIRING

Investigators are interrogating after gunshots took a four-year-old girl's life Tues morning in Northeastern Philadelphia. Police claim they didn't learn about this incident in Parkwood area in the city until it was recorded and confirmed by employees at Jefferson Torresdale Hospital.

There are 2 scenes at this stage, the family vehicle that took the little girl to the hospital and a house on Secane Drive's 2900 block where the shooting was suspected by cops.

Investigators are checking the house for answers as the incident has more aspects about it.

Police report the young girl had relatives residing inside the house and officials say this is where the shooting took place.

Just before 11: 59 pm police were informed that her mother and uncle had brought the four-year-old survivor to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital. She sustained gut bullet wound.

Medical professionals could not save the child, and she was pronounced dead at 12:13 a.m.

Cops came to the house to figure out what had contributed to the fire.

Officials discuss strategies for reopening

Officials have said that the stay at home order will remain intact in Philadelphia.

Philly health commissioner dr. Thomas Farley stated that reopening will still take a lot of time while Gov. Tom wolf said that the area could be among the last to reopen.

Other states have designed a three phase reopening plan in place which is going to get execute from may 8th .

However yellow area are having increased freedom so steps are being made to make every area at least in the yellow zone.

The state and count official have decided some criteria after which an area can by called yellow zone.

1. If the rate of newly infected people is not more than 50 new cases each day for 1000 residents than officials can think of converting area into yellow zone.
2. There is lack of testing in the state due to which the actual number of patients do not get reported. Before reopening more testing iss necessary . according to analysis only 2% of Montogomery county residents have been tested so far
3. One of the factors before reopening to consider will be of stability of hospital system. As of now 40% intensive care beds and 70% of ventilators are available statewide
4. A major factor in deciding of reopening of state will be of contact tracing. Levine said that Pennsylvania is having limited health nurses to do contact tracing and they need more oerson to help in community tracing who can ask about there previous travel experience and interaction with other people.

Pennsylvania to open its liquor stores

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the liquor stores were not able to function; however, on Monday Pennsylvania Liquor control board has released a list of fine wine and good spirits stores offering curbside pickups. Three hundred ninety-eight state liquor stores will now provide curbside packing. The PLCB said that a total of 565 liquor stores throughout the keystone state would be offering their service.

Tim holden PLCB chairman said that they are making strides so that service could be expanded up to Fine wine and right spirits customers. He further noted that adding a hundred more locations will help them in overcoming the demand for wine and spirits.

Stores will be taking limited calls from 9:00 am by phone on the first call, a first-served basis. The state will continue to function until it reaches its limit of providing service on that particular day of the week. A caller can make an order for not more than six bottles per day per store; therefore, the curbside pickup will be limited. The PLCB said that the Staff of every store would first make the caller go through the products present in the stores, and after that, payment will be made on the phone. Holden said that since last week Pennsylvanians were frustrated from limited signal and access to wine and spirits, and from experience, they have decided to process orders faster and provide flexibility in scheduling pickups.

AUSTIN POLICEMEN ARE HELPING IN DELIVERING MEAL TO ELDERLY AND DISABLE PEOPLE

On Fri, Central Texas Meals on Wheels provided food to seniors.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 disease outbreak, Meals on Wheels has moved from the regular meal delivery to distributions every 2 weeks now.

Any single Fri meals on Wheels provide meals worth 2 weeks.

Austin's officers are standing in and distributing food for Meals on Wheels who are short of volunteers.

"Now, on this side of town, we have 5 to 6 policemen doing rounds," Corporal Timothy Price told the local news channel. "I think for the moment they will continue running short. If we can, we'll also assist. "Officers always use the chance to create constructive connections with society.

Food on Wheels is a community-based group that offers food for elderly people and disabled persons in order to preserve their independence.

They need help right now. If you would like to help out, please visit their online site.

A MAN DEVELOPED A MOBILE APP TO HELP UNDERPRIVILEGED AUSTIN CITIZENS TO LOCATE THOSE WHO CAN SUPPORT THEM

The COVID-19 Donation Mapping application was created almost a month ago by Piero Preto. It will link persons who could support with others who need aid during the corona virus disaster.

"It asks for your postal code and it informs you all the donors and all the support services in your area out there," said Preto.

"It's really site-driven. We want people to find support quickly.

Pretto is part of the United States Code. He said the company is creating applications for charities and other groups that are trying to support citizens on a very daily basis. He'd built it in fewer than Twenty hours, according to Preto.

The application depends on users to post what they want, or what they need, for help.

"If you only want to make people aware of the need for masks or the role of your company in providing bill assistance, then I think our software is well-equipped to do that," Preto said. "The Facebook group is an outstanding platform for very niche purposes."

Earlier in March, Preto joined the FB group "COVID-19 COMMUNITY ASSIST-AUSTIN, TX". And he saw there that some users are asking for help and others are posting what they are giving so he wanted to put it all in visual graphics.

"A number of individuals are going out now and wanting to reach down there to contribute back to their neighbors and society out there," Preto said. "There are numerous people underprivileged right now."